Producer Glyn Johns on why you should listen to The Rolling Stones in mono

In praise of mixing in a single channel

The Rolling Stones in Mono is a new box set that, as you might suspect, gathers together the band's early material and presents it in its original mono state.

Here, producer Glyn Johns, who engineered many of the band's early recordings, explains the key differences between mono and stereo, and why it's the mono versions of The Stones' '60s releases that you should be listening to.